Talks by Alfred R. Mele

The CEU Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS cordially invites you to the following talks of

Alfred R. Mele
(Florida State University)

Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agents’ Histories

Date: 26 March, 17:30-19:00
Venue: Central European University, Nádor str. 15, Room 103.

Abstract: A common idea in the literature on free will and moral responsibility is that all that is needed for free action and for moral responsibility for an action is present in an agent’s internal condition at the time of action. Here, an agent’s internal condition at a time may be understood as something specified by the collection of all psychological truths about the agent at the time that are silent on how he came to be as he is at that time. I will argue that this idea should be rejected and, moreover, that it should be rejected both by compatibilists about free will and moral responsibility and by incompatibilist believers in free will and moral responsibility. Topics addressed include the bearing of various cases of manipulation on the assessment of the common idea at issue and how incompatibilist believers in free will and moral responsibility may plausibly deal with the problem of present luck.

Free Will and Neuroscience: Old and New

Date: 27 March, 16:00-17:30
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tóth Kálmán str. 4, Floor 7, Trapéz Room (B.7.16)

Abstract: A major source of scientific skepticism about free will is the belief that conscious decisions and intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions. I present three serious problems encountered by any attempt to justify this belief by appealing to existing neuroscientific data. Experiments using three different kinds of technology are discussed: EEG, fMRI, and depth electrodes. I focus on three questions: When are decisions made (or intentions acquired) in the experiments at issue? When, in these experiments, is the point of no return reached for the featured overt actions? And can we properly generalize from the experimenters’ alleged findings to all decisions?

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Workshop: Recasting the Treatise

The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group cordially invites you to the upcoming workshop:

Recasting the Treatise
Vol. 1.

Date: 15-16 March 2018
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán st., 1014 Budapest, 7th floor (Trapéz room)

Organizers:
Tamás Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Peter Millican (Hertford College, Oxford)

The program of the workshop is available here.

Eric Schliesser: Adam Smith - Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker

The Lendület "Morals and Science" Research Group, RCH HAS cordially invites you to the upcoming discussion of Eric Schliesser's book:

Adam Smith - Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
(Oxford University Press, 2017)

Speakers include:
Sonja Amade (Swansea)
Tamás Demeter (HAS)
Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)
Craig Smith (Glasgow)
Spyridon Tegos (Crete)
Charles Wolfe (Ghent/CEU)

Date of the event: 3rd March, 2018., 10:00-17:00
Venue of the event: 4. Tóth Kálmán st., Budapest, 1097; 7th floor, Trapéz room.

Workshop: Intellectual role models of Hungarian and Polish thought in the 19th and 20th centuries

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS cordially invites you to its workshop:

Intellectual role models of Hungarian and Polish thought in the 19th and 20th centuries

Date: 27 February 2018, 2pm
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán st., Budapest, 1097; 7th floor, "Trapéz" room

The program of the workshop is available here.

Call for Papers: "Hamlet in Wittenberg"

A workshop with the title "Hamlet in Wittenberg: Civic and Princely Education in Early Modern Europe" is organised by the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the conference is to gain an overview of the state of the arts and recent tendencies in the research field of early modern - princely and civic - political education.

Keynote speakers: James Hankins (Harvard University), Jan Waszink (Leiden University), Tibor Fabinyi (Károli Gáspár University).

Date ofthe conference: 28-29. September, 2018.

To participate please send by 15 May a title and an abstract of 3-500 words to

Further details: https://hamlet-in-wittenberg.webnode.hu/call-for-papers/

Organisers: Ferenc Hörcher and Ádám Smrcz

Papers by Ádám Tuboly

Ádám Tuboly's paper „The Early Formation of Modal Logic and Its Significance: A Historical Note on Quine, Carnap, and a Bit of Church” has been published in History of Philosophy of Logic. Ádám Tuboly's review article „Logical Empiricism in International Context” has appeared in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.

Talk by Frank Furedi

The Institute of Philosophy RCH HAS cordially invites you to its upcoming talk

Frank Furedi
Fear of Judgement and the downsizing of Tolerance in Western public life

Abstract:
Outwardly the liberal ideal of tolerance remains one of the sacred values of Western society. However in practice tolerance has been redefined to  mean acceptance and non-judgementalism. Yet for liberal thinkers from Bayle and Locke onwards tolerance demanded an act of judgment. And as Hannah Arendt argued, judgment is an essential component of public life. Without judgment, tolerance becomes emptied of meaning. This talk explains why, in western public life, tolerance has been re-defined as a second order value that is trumped by the sacralisation of non-judgementalism.

Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán st., Budapest, 1097; 7th floor, "Trapéz" room
Date: 23 Jaunuary 2018, 16.00

Registers of Philosophy 2017/3.

Registers of Philosophy 2017/3. Richard Heinrich: Does philosophy need (its own) words?